Trams appreciation thread

[KMack]

San Francisco Cable Cars

Modern



1950s


1890s

The round area in photo 2 turns the cable car in different directions.

[KMack]

Old street cars in my city Cincinnati.




Another incline Mt. Adams


Today the typical modern look, no inclines or hills.

[luc2112]

Rio de Janeiro -Brazil:





Atual:



Brazil would have another one for longer trips:















Atual:

[Ülev]

Vitoria-Gasteiz , my birth town ( Basque Country, Spain)



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Newcastle also has Basque CAF trams

no, not that one

Australian Newcastle ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcas...ght_Rail#Fleet

[The Lawspeaker]

The PCC streetcar as it was used in The Hague:

The sound of the tram pulling up. The soft ringing of the bell. This takes me back:

[Daco Celtic]

These are cable cars:

Those are cool but they weren't featured on Full House


or Rice-a-Roni

[KMack]

Not a tram but very fun and nearby.

[Ülev]

Not a tram but very fun and nearby.

you just reminded me of this

Timișoara view from the touristic tram

[♥ Lily ♥]

Some Interesting History About Trams.

The English terms tram and tramway are derived from the Scots word tram, referring respectively to a type of truck (goods wagon or freight railroad car) used in coal mines and the tracks on which they ran. The word tram probably derived from Middle Flemish trame ("beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung"). The identical word la trame with the meaning "crossbeam" is also used in the French language. Etymologists believe that the word tram refers to the wooden beams the railway tracks were initially made of before the railroad pioneers switched to the much more wear-resistant tracks made of iron and, later, steel. The word Tram-car is attested from 1873.

Although the terms tram and tramway have been adopted by many languages, they are not used universally in English; North Americans prefer streetcar, trolley, or trolleycar.


A horse-drawn tram operated by Swansea and Mumbles Railway, 1870. Established in 1804, the railway service was the world's first.

The world's first passenger train or tram was the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, in Wales, UK. The Mumbles Railway Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1804, and horse-drawn service started in 1807. The service closed in 1827, but was restarted in 1860, again using horses. It was worked by steam from 1877, and then, from 1929, by very large (106-seater) electric tramcars, until closure in 1961. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was something of a one-off however, and no street tramway would appear in Britain until 1860 when one was built in Birkenhead by the American George Francis Train.


A horse-drawn tram in Sydney, 1894. The city saw Australia's first tram service open in 1860.

Street railways developed in America before Europe, largely due to the poor paving of the streets in American cities which made them unsuitable for horsebuses, which were then common on the well-paved streets of European cities. Running the horsecars on rails allowed for a much smoother ride. There are records of a street railway running in Baltimore as early as 1828, however the first authenticated streetcar in America, was the New York and Harlem Railroad developed by the Irish coach builder John Stephenson, in New York City which began service in the year 1832. The New York and Harlem Railroad's Fourth Avenue Line ran along the Bowery and Fourth Avenue in New York City. It was followed in 1835 by the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, which still operates as the St. Charles Streetcar Line. Other American cities did not follow until the 1850s, after which the "animal railway" became an increasingly common feature in the larger towns.


Horse-drawn trams continued to be used in New York City until 1917.

The first permanent tram line in continental Europe was opened in Paris in 1855 by Alphonse Loubat who had previously worked on American streetcar lines. The tram was developed in numerous cities of Europe (some of the most extensive systems were found in Berlin, Budapest, Birmingham, Leningrad, Lisbon, London, Manchester, Paris.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram

[KMack]

Lily I have been on both of the old ones in San Francisco and New Orleans.
It goes right through the Garden District.